SBA Mentor Protégé Program – High level training on the SBA Mentor Protégé Program. Learn about the goals that SBA has set for the program, if your business qualifies as well as the process for applying.

Mentor Protégé Panel Discussion – Hear from 2 successful SBA Proteges and their Mentors about their journey and experiences. Webinar attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and learn about forming and maintaining a successful Mentor Protégé business relationship.

This webinar will provide an overview of the latest legislative updates and policy changes to the SBA HUBZone, VOSB, WOSB and 8(a) Business Development Programs. Join this training to learn how these program changes may impact the success of your business for Federal government contracting.

Success in government contracting often starts with subcontracting with federal prime contractors. Learn best practices in marketing your business to prospective prime contractor partners. The SBA has Commercial Market Representative Professionals who work to assist businesses in finding sub-contracting opportunities.

Join the Ohio Procurement Technical Assistance Center, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Small Business Administration (SBA), Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI), and theSouthern Ohio PTAC as we welcome representatives from DARPA as they discuss the opportunities for businesses with their SBIR and STTR programs.

Mrs. Jennifer Thabet, Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Small Business Programs Office (SBPO) provides an overview of DARPA and the agency’s Small Business Programs; including the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Mrs. Thabet will cover what makes DARPA unique and how to get started with DARPA.

The Small Business Programs Office (SBPO) serves the small business community by creating an environment within DARPA that recognizes and utilizes small business as a primary source of innovative solutions. SBPO stimulates an ecosystem of small businesses to create and transition radical, game-changing technologies that benefit national security, the federal government and the commercial marketplace.

SBPO administers the DARPA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs, established by Congress to provide opportunities for small businesses to participate in Federal Government-sponsored research and development (R&D). The goals of the SBIR/STTR Programs are to: stimulate technological innovation; use small business to meet federal R&D needs; foster and encourage participation by socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns (SBCs) and by SBCs that are at least 51 percent owned and controlled by women; and increase private-sector commercialization of innovations derived from federal R&D, thereby increasing competition, productivity, and economic growth. These goals are in close alignment to the DARPA mission and as such the small business performers in DARPA’s SBIR/STTR programs serve as key contributors to and vital members of DARPA’s innovation ecosystem.